reached only through a process of development. The speculations of the Gnostics and the labours of the Apologists, the constructive genius of Origen and the acute dialectic of Athanasius, all contributed towards the evolution of the matured scientific product of the Greek theology as defined by the Councils of Nicæa and Chalcedon. Everything combined to mark out Alexandria as the place most likely to take the lead in any great intellectual movement. Many currents of thought met and mingled in this
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